Topforge

TopForge is about to launch the remarkable Edtech innovation called Kidous, a digital pedagogical tool for Early Childhood Educators that is based on Finnish educational standards. Kidous accelerates pedagogical skill development of kids through observation and analytics, adopting national curricula, and visualizing social dynamics. Kidous is not just a tool, but is provided along with high quality pedagogical training and expertise. Kidous helps daycares worldwide to increase the quality of education and has a substantial impact on the way kids are learning and developing. Observation and documentation, along with the play based approach, are key ingredients for authentic development of kids in Finland. Kidous incorporates this philosophy and puts children in the center of the learning and holistic development process. Kidous consists out of a pedagogical app and online tool to support early childhood educators both in Finland and worldwide in their everyday observation and documentation tasks and allows daycares to easily engage with parents and care-givers. Kidous comprises of documentation support, creating and following up children’s individual curriculum, automatic portfolio generation, sociogram and a messaging tool enabling real-time communication. Unlike any other product in the market and highly appreciated by its clients, Kidous pedagocial and sociogram features are helping educators to build well-balanced and empowering social environments for the children.